https://wccftech.com/u-s-ups-the-ante-in-the-ongoing-trade-war-blacklists-28-chinese-entities/ > In a move that constitutes a major escalation in the ongoing U.S. – China trade war, the U.S. Commerce Department has placed the security bureau for the Xinjiang province, 19 subordinate government agencies and 8 Chinese companies on the so-called ‘Entities List’, according to the department’s filings. The blacklisted companies include surveillance equipment manufacturers – Hikvision (SHE:002415) and Dahua (SHE:002236) – as well as developers of facial and voice recognition technology – Megvii and IFlytek (SHE:002230). > The Commerce Department’s filing states that the “entities have been implicated in human rights violations and abuses in the implementation of China’s campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention, and high-technology surveillance against Uighurs, Kazakhs, and other members of Muslim minority groups.”